Only do dhclient once; it has its own internal retry which is more than

long enough (and doing it multiple times results in a dialog which waits
AGES to complete).

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/release/sysinstall/tcpip.c b/release/sysinstall/tcpip.c
index 105ed2c15875..4e2d8d388089 100644
--- a/release/sysinstall/tcpip.c
+++ b/release/sysinstall/tcpip.c
@@ -225,16 +225,18 @@ tcpOpenDialog(Device *devp)
 	    Mkdir("/var/run");
 	    Mkdir("/tmp");
 	    msgNotify("Scanning for DHCP servers...");
-	    for (k = 1; k < 4; k++) {
-		if (0 == vsystem("dhclient -1 %s", devp->name)) {
-		    dhcpGetInfo(devp);
-		    use_dhcp = TRUE;
-		    break;
-		}
-		msgNotify("Scanning for DHCP servers...  Retry: %d", k);
+	    if (0 == vsystem("dhclient -1 %s", devp->name)) {
+		dhcpGetInfo(devp);
+		use_dhcp = TRUE;
 	    }
+	    else
+		use_dhcp = FALSE;
 	}
 
+	/* Special hack so it doesn't show up oddly in the tcpip setup menu */
+	if (!strcmp(gateway, "NO"))
+	    gateway[0] = '\0';
+
 	/* Get old IP address from variable space, if available */
 	if (!ipaddr[0]) {
 	    if ((cp = variable_get(VAR_IPADDR)) != NULL)
@@ -273,7 +275,7 @@ tcpOpenDialog(Device *devp)
     }
     if (!gateway[0]) {
 	tmp = variable_get(VAR_GATEWAY);
-	if (tmp)
+	if (tmp && strcmp(tmp, "NO"))
 	    SAFE_STRCPY(gateway, tmp);
     }
     if (!nameserver[0]) {